Editorial Board

Nora Wendl is an Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of New Mexico, where she teaches both architectural design and theory. Her exhibition work on feminist and experimental historiographic practices has been supported by the Graham Foundation, Santa Fe Art Institute, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Her essays have been published and translated widely in Arquine, Revista Arquitectura, Journal of Architectural Education, Architecture and Culture, Thresholds, and Offramp, among others. In 2022, her book manuscript The Edith Project—an autotheoretical approach to writing architectural history—was a finalist for the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize. Wendl holds B.Arch. and M.Arch. degrees from Iowa State University, where she was also a Pearl Hogrefe Fellow in Creative Writing.

David Theodore is Director and Canada Research Chair in Architecture, Health, and Computation at the Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture, McGill University. His research has received support from the Graham Foundation, SSHRC, and the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation. He has co-published on the history of healthcare architecture in the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Social Science & Medicine, and Technology and Culture. He has also contributed to design journals worldwide including Canadian Architect, Frame, Harvard Design Magazine, gta papers, Log, and the RIBA Journal.

Nora Akawi is a Palestinian architect and curator living in New York. She is assistant professor of architecture at The Cooper Union, and co-founder of the interdisciplinary research and design studio [interim]. She focuses on bordering and ruination as the architectural project of settler colonialism, drawing from political geography and archive theory. Nora served on the International Jury of the Venice Architecture Biennale (2023), where she co-curated Friday Sermon (2018). She also curated Al Majhoola Min Al-Ard (this earth’s unknown, or, she who has been vanished from the earth) at the Biennale d’Architecture d’Orléans (2019) and co-curated Sarāb (2019) a festival of experimental electronic music and performance from the Arab world. She co-edited the books Friday Sermon (2018) and Architecture and Representation: The Arab City (2016). Nora serves on the editorial boards of the peer-reviewed Journal of Architecture Education (2023-), Faktur: Documents and Architecture (2023-), and informa, the architecture journal of the University of Puerto Rico, San Juan (2022-2023).

Neeraj Bhatia is an architect, urban designer, and educator whose work resides at the intersection of politics, infrastructure, and urbanism. He is the founder of the design practice THE OPEN WORKSHOP as well as an Associate Professor at the California College of the Arts where he also directs Urban Works Agency, an urbanism research lab. Select honors include the Architectural League Young Architects Prize, Emerging Leaders Award from Design Intelligence, and the Canadian Prix de Rome. THE OPEN WORKSHOP’s design-research has been commissioned by the Seoul Biennale, Venice Biennale, Chicago Architecture Biennial, and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, among other venues.

Carey Clouse is an Associate Professor in Architecture and Landscape Architecture at UMass Amherst. She holds a post-professional degree (SMArchS) in Architecture and Urbanism from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.Arch. from the University of Oregon. Clouse is the recipient of a Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Fellowship to India and the Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellowship in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her research and creative production engage the topics of DIY urbanism, food security, climate change adaptation, and the future of the commons.

Michael Faciejew is a historian and theorist of the global built environment. He is an Assistant Professor at Dalhousie University’s School of Architecture. He researches the intersecting histories of architecture, media, technology, and colonialism since 1800. He is currently working on his first book, which examines the architectural and imperial transformations that forged a modern culture of information in Europe between 1890 and 1960. He is also developing the interdisciplinary volume After Concrete: Rethinking Material Dynamics, which looks at the entwined histories of environmental transformation and concrete construction. His work has been published in Grey Room, Thresholds, Transbordeur, and Architectural Theory Review, among other publications. His research has been supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, and other organizations. Before arriving at Dalhousie, Faciejew was a postdoctoral associate at Yale University, where he coordinated the interdisciplinary Mellon Sawyer Seminar “The Order of Multitudes: Atlas, Encyclopedia, Museum”.

Cruz Garcia is a Puerto Rican designer, artist, curator, educator, author, and theorist. He is an Associate Professor at Iowa State University. Along with French designer, artist, curator, educator, author, and poet Nathalie Frankowski, Garcia is the co-founder of WAI Architecture Think Thank, a planetary studio practicing by questioning the political, historical, and material legacy and imperatives of architecture and urbanism. WAI is one of Garcia and Frankowski’s many platforms of public engagement, which also include Beijing-based anti-profit art space Intelligentsia Gallery and the free, alternative-education platform and trade school Loudreaders

Tania Gutiérrez-Monroy is an assistant professor at the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture in the University of British Columbia. She studies architecture as a material and signifying practice that spatializes colonial and patriarchal forces as well as resistance mechanisms. Thematically, her research spans: historical examples of ephemeral and practised architectures, race and gender in spaces of conflict, and landscapes of Indigenous resistance. Prior to joining UBC, Tania was assistant professor of architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, after having been the 2021-2022 Emerging Scholar Fellow at the G. Hines College of Architecture and Design, in the University of Houston. She has also taught architectural history, theory, design, and research methods at the University of Houston, Louisiana State University, and Université Laval. She holds a Ph.D. and an M.Sc. from McGill University and was trained as an architect at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Priya Jain is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture at Texas A&M University. An architect licensed both in India and the US, she has worked on the restoration and adaptive use of a diverse range of buildings. Her research is focused on the histories of twentieth-century South Asian architecture in a transnational context, particularly as it relates to colonization, politics, technology and climate. Priya serves on the Heritage Conservation Committee, co-chairs the Climate Change & History Group, and is on the council of the Women in Architecture Group, at the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH). She has also been the Field Editor (Architecture) for the Getty Conservation Institute since 2017.

Zannah Mae Matson’s research and design work focuses on the histories and contemporary reinterpretations of landscapes throughout processes of colonization, violence, and state infrastructure projects. Her current research traces the afterlives of coloniality through highway construction in Colombia’s eastern piedmont landscapes to think about transportation infrastructure, extractive economies, and visual representation in Latin American landscapes more generally.

 

Zannah is an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Colorado Boulder, School of Environmental Design and an active member of the Beyond Extraction Collective, a scholar-activist-led collective that mobilizes counter-extractive knowledges.

 

Shawhin Roudbari is an Assistant Professor in Environmental Design at the University of Colorado Boulder. He studies ways designers organize to address social problems and human rights abuses by bridging sociological studies of social movements and race with architectural theory. Supported by the National Science Foundation and community impact grants, Shawhin’s research contributes to theories/practices of contentious politics and employs ethnographic and speculative design methods. He is a founding member of the DissentXDesign research collective, which has published work in leading sociological, architectural, and interdisciplinary journals. Shawhin organizes with Dark Matter University (DMU) and is co-director of the Center for Community-Engaged Design and Research (CEDaR).

Fred Scharmen teaches architecture and urban design at Morgan State University’s School of Architecture and Planning. His work as a designer and researcher focuses on how architects imagine new spaces for speculative future worlds and who is invited into those worlds. His first book, Space Settlements, from Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, was published in 2019. His second book, Space Forces was published by Verso in 2021. Scharmen has spoken and exhibited internationally, at venues like the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the Graham Foundation, the Strelka Institute, the Venice Architecture Biennale, and the Museum of the Future in Dubai. Recent projects, with the Working Group on Adaptive Systems, include a mile-and-a-half long scale model of the solar system in downtown Baltimore (in collaboration with nine artists), and a pillow fort for the Baltimore Museum of Art based on Gottfried Semper’s Four Elements of Architecture.